After a recent holiday at Lizard Island, travel writer Paul Ewert regales all the sublime reasons that this Luxury Lodge on the most far-flung reaches of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is better than a trip to the Maldives any day.

“I’m floating on my back gazing up at a cloudless, sunny blue sky. A sea eagle flies overhead and then, nearby, I hear the gentle ‘pop’ of a green turtle sticking his head up out of the balmy ocean that surrounds me.

It’s blissful. But I can’t get too lost in my reverie as there are some important decisions to be made: do I don a snorkel to spy sharks and stingrays from below, or take in the delights of the Reef from above via a glass-bottomed kayak? Do I go for a cheeky, inclusive expertly-mixed afternoon cocktail or do I put in a call to get whisked away to my very own private, white sand beach with a gourmet picnic in tow? Hell, I decide, why not all four?” – Paul Ewert, 9Honey.

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